|
April 11, 2006
Divers returned to port Monday with two gold bars and 15 silver coins they discovered. They are believed to be from the shipwreck of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank off Key West in 1622. It is estimated they had were buried beneath the ocean floor for almost 400 years.
|
|
April 5, 2006
A New York judge dismisses a lawsuit aimed at allowing private, social dancing in restaurants, clubs and bars. State Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman upholds a ban on cabarets, despite a first amendment argument.
|
|
|
March 23, 2006
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is sending undercover agents into bars to bust patrons who are drunk. A spokeswoman for the commission, Carolyn Beck, tells Reuters agents recently arrested 30 people in 36 Dallas area bars for public drunkenness.
|
|
March 23, 2006
A Florida man is behind bars after asking two uniformed officers to test a crack pipe. Police say Phillip Williams doubted whether he was being sold actual crack cocaine, so he approached the officers and asked them to test his pipe so he could be sure.
|
|
March 9, 2006
A German burglar has managed to dodge a prison sentence due to a wee problem with his penis. Apparently the inmate suffers from a permanent erection, and that landed him a get out of jail free card. Maurice Baumann, 32, was sentenced to a year's jail for burglarizing British homes.
|